Okay then, show of hands for those surprised that corporations are acting corrupt.
Hmm...looks like the same number of hands...3...oh wait, little timmy's got both hands up. Balmer...put your other hand down...that won't work anymore.
I mean really, an Internet out of control? all day long? Do these people see hyperbole as the best way to get people to listen because I know that anyone claiming kids are watching porn all day long is either an idiot or prone to exaggeration so why should I listen to them?
Times like these make me glad that I rarely pay using a credit card for online things. I bought CS:S from a physical store using physical money and so I'm not at risk at all. Sometimes convenience is less important than security...
What? So I, hypothetically assuming I was 12 for example, could go out and buy Blood-Murder-Death-Sex 3 from my local Blockbuster? I could go ask the nice mister at the counter to take my allowance for Death-Death-Death-And-Blood 7 and he'd do it?
There are already restrictions on buying R rated movies, at least where I live, and the same goes for video games (Already). This is really a non-issue if he means M rated by violent.
So he wants to make sure that certain violent games, let's presume for the moment he means M rated for the sake of argument and then deal with T, cannot be bought by people younger than 17...does New York not already have this law? I know for a fact that in Arizona selling an M rated game to a minor is illegal and actually punishable by some law, I had to show my driver's license to buy Counter Strike.
The only thing I can see about this bill that might concern people is the definition of violent. If, by that, the bill means M rated then who cares. M rated is supposed to be sold to 17 year olds or older, so now it'll be enforced by law, that's nice. Now then, if by violent the bill intends for all games with violence, with no care to the rating, to be sold to 17 or older then we have a problem, especially since every game has violence except the most absolutely boring arcade games.
That's all I'm concerned about, how is a violent video game defined? I'd presume by the movie part as well that it means M rated but hey, it's politics, they could very well mean to ban all games in one fell swoop.
I read about 1/3 of it before getting bored...it's sad that the justice system is so, not corrupt, but like that. Corrupted by a lack of knowledge and care about a relatively serious problem. Unfortunately as I read through the part about the briefs not being read my first thought was "Yeah, what's new?" as it didn't seem all that extraordinary to me for the judge to not really know anything more than the very very rudimentary part of a case.
Wow...you called it. Though looking at that game it actually is pretty relevant. Don't know which mod thought to mod it troll...wish I had the mod points to undo it but hopefully it'll be noticed by someone who does.
Exactly. I've been known to research guns, gun laws, nunchuck laws (can you believe they're banned in my state?) and swords. I own none of these things, and probably will never buy one. If people were to look at what I look at and decide who I am by it they'd probably think I was violent person who plays violent games and wants to buy weapons, not a very safe thing.
This is what's wrong with targeted advertising, people often like to look/research things they'd never consider buying.
Here's what I say to the advertisers, what about research papers? If I start doing research on AIDS should insurance companies start upping my rates?
That's the answer to his complaints right there. You want to see good creative games that didn't cost multi-millions and may have been made by a single person go look at indie game areas. I for one am very glad that gaming has moved past the point where a 12 year old could build games that matched the game industry, if such a day ever existed. Modern games are sometimes uncreative but that doesn't mean the old days were somehow better. The difference is that nowadays more creativity is required to make a creative game as all the genres have pretty much filled up.
This guy really needs to see my sig. And by the way, I'm one of the people he doesn't believe in anymore. A gamer who wants to make games. Am I discouraged by the big money games? No, because I don't want to make those.
I have to agree, I can't think of any examples, and yet the post gets modded +4 informative...either everyone else on Slashdot knows of hundreds of examples or/. is becoming very liberal in it's US bashing w/out evidence...
I'm not sure of this but wouldn't TeamSpeak and Ventrillo count as Prior Art? I know that I was using TeamSpeak 2.0 3 or 4 years ago so it's initial release date must have been a while before that, and both programs transmit voice data over the internet. Sure, they're not phone programs, but they are VoIP aren't they?
Heh. While I find your comment amusing I must point out it's not the/.er's fault that China and Russia are considered developing countries. Blame human geographers for that. Russia and China are considered Developing by those groups. Personally I think it's just silly, who are we (people in general, not the US) to determine what style of life is better than another, but hey, that's how it is.
MTBF matters because it's random. They're not saying that every drive will last that long, they're saying that the average drive will. Therefore the chance of any drive failing within a reasonable amount of time drops the more the mean time is. So with a 5000000 MTBF the chance of any one drive failing in your life time is incredibly minuscule.
"While we all know from reading the internets that Wal-Mart is irredeemably evil"
What is that? Sure, the majority of people don't like Wal-Mart, but why do you feel the need to mention it in an article where Wal-Mart is doing something good?
As for the article it's mostly a "duh" thing. It's main points seem to be that Wal-Mart's trying to sell a lot of these bulbs, the people who make money off of incandescents don't like it, and then it goes into the history of the light bulb.
I'm glad Wal-Mart's doing this, too many people refuse to buy them, if Wal-Mart does what they always do (cheap) then their plan should work and power consumption should drop.
No offense to those who believe in UFOs but come on, what's this nonsense about employees complaining that it's not being investigated more. Obviously it wasn't spotted on RADAR, and the description sounds like something I saw a while ago...a cloud. Why should United take this seriously? 10 people say they saw a UFO, people do that all the time. The Tribune makes it sound like the government and United are ignoring a huge threat. Frankly, even if it was a UFO, the government shouldn't waste it's time investigating it. The moment the government starts investigating every UFO sighting out there, even just ever group sighting, a ton of money is going to be spent on a something futile...oh wait...it already...
Okay, as someone who doesn't typically use IE7 I honestly have no idea how this thing works, and my tests (going to amazon.com) didn't reveal any green or anything with the phishing thing turned on. I noticed that the article talked about the filter as though a new certificate was required, yet when I looked up how it worked it seemed like the filter actually evaluated each page on the spot and used heuristics to determine if it looked suspicious or not.
Now then I know MS is going to get some major bashings here, because most/. users seem to have that built into their genome, but I wonder if perhaps the article is a bit biased. Does anyone know whether or not a new certificate is required to get a green rating? MS's information seems to say green means IE doesn't think it's phishing, this article seems to say that green means it has a new certificate, who's right?
"Are they really amazed that it could slip from a person's hand and go flying?"
Have you ever fake-thrown something? Like, make it look like you're going to throw something at someone but stop at the last second? I think pretty much every kid has done that at least once, it's the same situation.
Frankly if you don't have the capability to hold onto something while pretending to throw it you really shouldn't be buying the Wii, it's not like it's a particularly hard skill to develop or anything.
And how hard is it to hold onto a remote anyways? If the Wiimote was small or excessively large I could understand how people could have a bad grip, but most everyone can grip a remote and have little chance of dropping it. The problem is people who think the strap is going to stop the wiimote, if the strap wasn't there there'd probably be less incidents because people would be more careful.
That's the problem in this modern age, if you make something to increase safety people take it to be something that will make them safe no matter what they do and then act like morons.
He's suing a company that's willing to help solve a problem that's not their fault (as the strap is NOT intended to stop the Wiimote if it's thrown but rather intended to keep you from dropping it). Nintendo has, frankly, done everything you could expect of a company in their position. People are using their devices improperly and then blaming Nintendo for damage. It's the same as if you have one of those shake-to-recharge flashlights and you let it go and it broke your T.V., could you blame the company who made those for anything? No, because it's your fault. Nintendo doesn't really need to do anything, the Wii works as advertised as does the Wiimote. It's not their fault that people are being idiots with the thing, and so their offering to replace straps with heavier-duty ones is generous of them.
And watch, I'm calling it, Nintendo will lose. Because in America, land of the free, home of the brave, you can get money out of McDonalds for spilling coffee on yourself. Some days I love being an American, and then there are days where a company gets sued for doing more than should rationally be expected of them.
All he really needs to do is buy a high power laptop, preferably Dell with Sony made batteries, and set that on top of his clothes, they'll be dry faster than they would with the dryer and it would cost less!
Yet another reason to upgrade, multiple uses! "Hey dude! You're laptop gets hot!" "Yeah, I disabled the fans so I could dry my clothes and cook my food with it, now I only need it, a washer and a dishwasher and I've got everything I need!"
C is the speed of light in a vacuum. Light in air travels at C velocities. Light in liquids travel even more C. While there are legitimate concerns about the possibility of anything, light included, traveling faster than C your question is irrelevant as the light is not 'traveling faster than itself' but rather traveling faster than it would in a vacuum. It's like saying 'The plane's Cruise speed is 300 MpH, how can it cruise faster than itself?'
Just because you don't want to fly slowly at treetop level doesn't mean others don't want to, there's more to life than blasting from city to city always rushing...
Just because something is enormous unfolded doesn't mean it will be when it is folded...oh you have an umbrella? Where are you going to store that!? It would take up your whole closet!
Their patent is for hot-air ballons with internal frames which is much more new and innovative than 90% of patents out there (I'm looking at the company who's suing Nintendo for the trigger on the wii)
Stop being a hater for a single second and think about this, this thing is completely new. It's simple to fly, easier than hot-air balloons or blimps. Just think of the uses, replace a couple tour buses with this thing and you get the same maneuverability, better views, and little to no traffic on your tour. What other vehicle can do that?
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Okay then, show of hands for those surprised that corporations are acting corrupt.
Hmm...looks like the same number of hands...3...oh wait, little timmy's got both hands up. Balmer...put your other hand down...that won't work anymore.
I mean really, an Internet out of control? all day long? Do these people see hyperbole as the best way to get people to listen because I know that anyone claiming kids are watching porn all day long is either an idiot or prone to exaggeration so why should I listen to them?
Times like these make me glad that I rarely pay using a credit card for online things. I bought CS:S from a physical store using physical money and so I'm not at risk at all. Sometimes convenience is less important than security...
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Wow...the system has already been cracked and the formatting system altered...fast work!
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What? So I, hypothetically assuming I was 12 for example, could go out and buy Blood-Murder-Death-Sex 3 from my local Blockbuster? I could go ask the nice mister at the counter to take my allowance for Death-Death-Death-And-Blood 7 and he'd do it?
There are already restrictions on buying R rated movies, at least where I live, and the same goes for video games (Already). This is really a non-issue if he means M rated by violent.
So he wants to make sure that certain violent games, let's presume for the moment he means M rated for the sake of argument and then deal with T, cannot be bought by people younger than 17...does New York not already have this law? I know for a fact that in Arizona selling an M rated game to a minor is illegal and actually punishable by some law, I had to show my driver's license to buy Counter Strike.
The only thing I can see about this bill that might concern people is the definition of violent. If, by that, the bill means M rated then who cares. M rated is supposed to be sold to 17 year olds or older, so now it'll be enforced by law, that's nice. Now then, if by violent the bill intends for all games with violence, with no care to the rating, to be sold to 17 or older then we have a problem, especially since every game has violence except the most absolutely boring arcade games.
That's all I'm concerned about, how is a violent video game defined? I'd presume by the movie part as well that it means M rated but hey, it's politics, they could very well mean to ban all games in one fell swoop.
Read the summary? You must be new here.
I read about 1/3 of it before getting bored...it's sad that the justice system is so, not corrupt, but like that. Corrupted by a lack of knowledge and care about a relatively serious problem. Unfortunately as I read through the part about the briefs not being read my first thought was "Yeah, what's new?" as it didn't seem all that extraordinary to me for the judge to not really know anything more than the very very rudimentary part of a case.
Wow...you called it. Though looking at that game it actually is pretty relevant. Don't know which mod thought to mod it troll...wish I had the mod points to undo it but hopefully it'll be noticed by someone who does.
Exactly. I've been known to research guns, gun laws, nunchuck laws (can you believe they're banned in my state?) and swords. I own none of these things, and probably will never buy one. If people were to look at what I look at and decide who I am by it they'd probably think I was violent person who plays violent games and wants to buy weapons, not a very safe thing.
This is what's wrong with targeted advertising, people often like to look/research things they'd never consider buying.
Here's what I say to the advertisers, what about research papers? If I start doing research on AIDS should insurance companies start upping my rates?
That's the answer to his complaints right there. You want to see good creative games that didn't cost multi-millions and may have been made by a single person go look at indie game areas. I for one am very glad that gaming has moved past the point where a 12 year old could build games that matched the game industry, if such a day ever existed. Modern games are sometimes uncreative but that doesn't mean the old days were somehow better. The difference is that nowadays more creativity is required to make a creative game as all the genres have pretty much filled up.
This guy really needs to see my sig. And by the way, I'm one of the people he doesn't believe in anymore. A gamer who wants to make games. Am I discouraged by the big money games? No, because I don't want to make those.
I have to agree, I can't think of any examples, and yet the post gets modded +4 informative...either everyone else on Slashdot knows of hundreds of examples or /. is becoming very liberal in it's US bashing w/out evidence...
Forefront of news? You must be new here...
(Yes I know my ID is higher than his)
I'm not sure of this but wouldn't TeamSpeak and Ventrillo count as Prior Art? I know that I was using TeamSpeak 2.0 3 or 4 years ago so it's initial release date must have been a while before that, and both programs transmit voice data over the internet. Sure, they're not phone programs, but they are VoIP aren't they?
I'd say it's more like Works. On Schedule. Bugless. Pick 2. :)
Heh. While I find your comment amusing I must point out it's not the /.er's fault that China and Russia are considered developing countries. Blame human geographers for that. Russia and China are considered Developing by those groups. Personally I think it's just silly, who are we (people in general, not the US) to determine what style of life is better than another, but hey, that's how it is.
MTBF matters because it's random. They're not saying that every drive will last that long, they're saying that the average drive will. Therefore the chance of any drive failing within a reasonable amount of time drops the more the mean time is. So with a 5000000 MTBF the chance of any one drive failing in your life time is incredibly minuscule.
"While we all know from reading the internets that Wal-Mart is irredeemably evil"
What is that? Sure, the majority of people don't like Wal-Mart, but why do you feel the need to mention it in an article where Wal-Mart is doing something good?
As for the article it's mostly a "duh" thing. It's main points seem to be that Wal-Mart's trying to sell a lot of these bulbs, the people who make money off of incandescents don't like it, and then it goes into the history of the light bulb.
I'm glad Wal-Mart's doing this, too many people refuse to buy them, if Wal-Mart does what they always do (cheap) then their plan should work and power consumption should drop.
((Why do I see myself losing Karma here...?))
No offense to those who believe in UFOs but come on, what's this nonsense about employees complaining that it's not being investigated more. Obviously it wasn't spotted on RADAR, and the description sounds like something I saw a while ago...a cloud. Why should United take this seriously? 10 people say they saw a UFO, people do that all the time. The Tribune makes it sound like the government and United are ignoring a huge threat. Frankly, even if it was a UFO, the government shouldn't waste it's time investigating it. The moment the government starts investigating every UFO sighting out there, even just ever group sighting, a ton of money is going to be spent on a something futile...oh wait...it already...
Okay, as someone who doesn't typically use IE7 I honestly have no idea how this thing works, and my tests (going to amazon.com) didn't reveal any green or anything with the phishing thing turned on. I noticed that the article talked about the filter as though a new certificate was required, yet when I looked up how it worked it seemed like the filter actually evaluated each page on the spot and used heuristics to determine if it looked suspicious or not.
/. users seem to have that built into their genome, but I wonder if perhaps the article is a bit biased. Does anyone know whether or not a new certificate is required to get a green rating? MS's information seems to say green means IE doesn't think it's phishing, this article seems to say that green means it has a new certificate, who's right?
Now then I know MS is going to get some major bashings here, because most
"Are they really amazed that it could slip from a person's hand and go flying?"
Have you ever fake-thrown something? Like, make it look like you're going to throw something at someone but stop at the last second? I think pretty much every kid has done that at least once, it's the same situation.
Frankly if you don't have the capability to hold onto something while pretending to throw it you really shouldn't be buying the Wii, it's not like it's a particularly hard skill to develop or anything.
And how hard is it to hold onto a remote anyways? If the Wiimote was small or excessively large I could understand how people could have a bad grip, but most everyone can grip a remote and have little chance of dropping it. The problem is people who think the strap is going to stop the wiimote, if the strap wasn't there there'd probably be less incidents because people would be more careful.
That's the problem in this modern age, if you make something to increase safety people take it to be something that will make them safe no matter what they do and then act like morons.
He's suing a company that's willing to help solve a problem that's not their fault (as the strap is NOT intended to stop the Wiimote if it's thrown but rather intended to keep you from dropping it). Nintendo has, frankly, done everything you could expect of a company in their position. People are using their devices improperly and then blaming Nintendo for damage. It's the same as if you have one of those shake-to-recharge flashlights and you let it go and it broke your T.V., could you blame the company who made those for anything? No, because it's your fault. Nintendo doesn't really need to do anything, the Wii works as advertised as does the Wiimote. It's not their fault that people are being idiots with the thing, and so their offering to replace straps with heavier-duty ones is generous of them.
And watch, I'm calling it, Nintendo will lose. Because in America, land of the free, home of the brave, you can get money out of McDonalds for spilling coffee on yourself. Some days I love being an American, and then there are days where a company gets sued for doing more than should rationally be expected of them.
All he really needs to do is buy a high power laptop, preferably Dell with Sony made batteries, and set that on top of his clothes, they'll be dry faster than they would with the dryer and it would cost less!
Yet another reason to upgrade, multiple uses! "Hey dude! You're laptop gets hot!" "Yeah, I disabled the fans so I could dry my clothes and cook my food with it, now I only need it, a washer and a dishwasher and I've got everything I need!"
C is the speed of light in a vacuum. Light in air travels at C velocities. Light in liquids travel even more C. While there are legitimate concerns about the possibility of anything, light included, traveling faster than C your question is irrelevant as the light is not 'traveling faster than itself' but rather traveling faster than it would in a vacuum. It's like saying 'The plane's Cruise speed is 300 MpH, how can it cruise faster than itself?'
Just because you don't want to fly slowly at treetop level doesn't mean others don't want to, there's more to life than blasting from city to city always rushing...
Just because something is enormous unfolded doesn't mean it will be when it is folded...oh you have an umbrella? Where are you going to store that!? It would take up your whole closet!
Their patent is for hot-air ballons with internal frames which is much more new and innovative than 90% of patents out there (I'm looking at the company who's suing Nintendo for the trigger on the wii)
Stop being a hater for a single second and think about this, this thing is completely new. It's simple to fly, easier than hot-air balloons or blimps. Just think of the uses, replace a couple tour buses with this thing and you get the same maneuverability, better views, and little to no traffic on your tour. What other vehicle can do that?
Clicking on the Article I get "Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here." Guess that means that one of the sides gave up eh?
(Watch, someone will tell me to RTA)